The remains of 63 infants have been discovered at a Detroit funeral home in a development which has stunned detectives.

Officers found 36 fetuses in cardboard boxes and 27 more in freezers after they raided Perry Funeral Home on Friday following a tip-off.

‘Heinous conditions and negligent conduct’ prompted the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) to suspend the mortuary science licenses of Perry Funeral Home and its director Gary Deak, according to a LARA.

Officers found the remains of 63 infants at Perry Funeral Home in Detroit on Friday. Officers seen at the scene

Officers found 36 fetuses in cardboard boxes and 27 more in freezers. after they raided Perry Funeral Home on Friday following a tip-off

Davisha Dellihue (pictured) whose baby was stillborn in May 2017 fears the remains that were given to her by Perry Funeral home are not those of her baby Deanna Michelle

Jason Moon of the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs said the remains were found in three unrefrigerated cardboard boxes.

Additional remains were found in a deep freezer and some of the bodies had dates of death in 2015.

Perry Funeral Home is the second facility in Detroit where fetuses have been found.

Several cremated remains were found by cleaning crews at the former Cantrell Funeral Home where mummified remains of 10 fetuses were discovered last week in a ceiling.

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Police Chief James Craig said law enforcement agencies are considering forming a task force to investigate the issue, specifically targeting improper storage of remains and fraud.

Custody of the remains - found at the funeral home on Trumbull just north of Warren Avenue - was turned over to state investigators.

They immediately declared the business closed and its license suspended, according to a statement from Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.

Detroit Police Chief James Craig (pictured) said the discovery has shocked officers

Attorneys Daniel Cieslak (left) Peter Parks (right) have filed a lawsuit for one couple who allege their infant's remains were improperly handled and more parents are coming forward

LARA said Perry fail to certify death certificates, failed to secure permits for the removal of dead bodies and embalmed dead infants and fetuses without being told to by a relative of the deceased.

Craig said police were tipped off to violations at the Perry Funeral Home by a father involved in a civil suit over the improper burial of his infant daughter.

Lawyers for the father as well as the mother of the deceased baby said the parents are plaintiffs in a lawsuit that they hope will allow them to represents dozens of parents whose infant remains were improperly handled by the Perry Funeral Home.

The case could become a class-action lawsuit representing every parent who comes forward with a similar complaint, Troy attorney Peter Parks told Detroit Free Press.

‘We already thought we had a strong case, and then when the news starting hitting the media about Cantrell, our clients agreed that we should take what we knew to the highest level of the Detroit Police Department, Parks said Friday.

One mother who had her stillborn baby cremated at the Funeral Home has serious concerns that the remains may not be her baby’s.

Davisha Dellihue gave birth to a baby girl in May 2017 who was still born and she brought her to Perry Funeral Home to have her remains cremated.

Several cremated remains were found by cleaning crews at Cantrell Funeral Home (pictured) in Detroit last week

But she told WXYZ: ‘When I got them, I opened them up and suddenly saw my sister and my mum , sand said this is not her, I don’t feel like this is my daughter.

‘I paid money for my daughter I want her, that is sentimental to me and to have nothing , it can be just that those ashes not even my daughter.

‘It’s heartbreaking to know that people are out here doing sick things like that’.

Marion Gibson, whose family also used Perry Funeral Home, told WXYZ: ‘This is a wake up call, were coming after you.

‘Were going to find out that you’re doing wrong by us and you going to answer for it’.

Parks and his co-counsel on the case, Daniel Cieslak, filed a lawsuit on behalf of Detroiters Rachel Brown and Larry Davis.

Their deceased daughter, Alayah, suffered at birth from severe respiratory problems and survived only 27 minutes after she was born on December 2014.

The badly decomposed bodies of 11 infants were found inside of the false ceiling on each side of the attic ladder at the former Cantrell Funeral Home on Mack Avenue in Detroit

The casket contained a baby and was one of the 11 badly decomposed infant remains that were found by Michigan inspectors, which was hidden in a ceiling compartment of the funeral home

Quality Behavioral Health president and CEO Naveed Syed is the current owner of the former Cantrell Funeral Home and purchased the building just four weeks ago from Wayne County

Her remains were among those improperly stored by Perry at the WSU morgue.

‘If our class action gets certified, we will make every effort to identify every single one of those fetuses' that had been improperly handled by Perry and to track down the parent’, Parks said.

He said they believe many more infants’ remains may be found in the improper possession of the Perry Funeral Home, perhaps as many as 200.

‘I’m really wondering where all the rest of them are,' Cieslak said late Friday.

The lawsuit filed by the two charges that Perry may have fraudulently billed Medicaid, as well as the Detroit Medical Center, for burials it never performed.

'The lawyers said they can’t estimate how much money might be involved, but it must be significant,' Parks said.

‘We already have people calling us, after seeing the news, saying 'this happened to me,' he said.